Nation

Tika Sumpter gave us an update on what's to come on Tyler Perry‘s The Haves and the Have Nots, and how she prepared for her Michelle Obama.

Fact: Tyler Perry’s depictions of Black women on television and in film are consistently, intensely polarizing and problematic. They are either too weak or too strong; cartoonishly naive or abrasively cynical and bitter. They have survived abuse at the hands of devastatingly handsome Black men — who are portrayed as jealous, vengeful, omnipotent, omniscient and […]